Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As part of a cross-industry initiative, the BMW Group, BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics have launched a joint cobalt pilot project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The world’s largest known reserves of this raw material are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Our mission is therefore as much in a perspective of the defence of our most vulnerable communities, as in the affirmation of the central positioning of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has 70 percent of the world reserves of this strategic mineral. —Andrew Britton, Managing Director at Kumi.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2020

UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are conducting a stakeholder-led research initiative focused on identifying strategies to improve sustainability and governance across the EV battery supply chain.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cobalt is primarily produced in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is a notable risk of supply chain disruption and exploitation of workers is quite commonplace. Tesla is one of the world’s largest players in the EV sector, and the company is a key customer of global suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

Ford Motor Company, Huayou Cobalt, IBM, LG Chem and RCS Global will use blockchain technology to trace and validate ethically sourced minerals in an effort to support human rights and environmental protection while helping infuse more transparency into global mineral supply chains. Goldcorp Inc., ING Bank, Kutcho Copper Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2023

Jervois Global Limited will suspend final construction and full concentrator commissioning at its 100%-owned Idaho Cobalt Operations mine (ICO) in Idaho ( earlier post ) due to continuing low cobalt prices and US inflationary impacts on construction costs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Respect and protection of human rights and of the environment, all the way from the mine to the finished product, are decisive in this respect, the company said. Mercedes-Benz is therefore working with IRMA and RCS Global on a step-by-step approach for dealing with particularly challenging local situations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Built on the IBM Blockchain Platform and assured by RCS Global Group, RSBN will have continued participation from founding members including Ford Motor Company, Volkswagen Group, LG Chem and Huayou Cobalt. Nicholas Garrett, CEO of RCS Global Group. Achievements of pilot test phase.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) supplies about 70% of cobalt. Policies implementing battery recycling risk having their own detrimental impact on the environment. Around 90% of the DRC’s cobalt comes from its industrial mines (90,000 tonnes annually).The This would have a considerable carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

The resulting changes in the size, composition and distribution of the world’s population have important consequences for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the globally agreed targets for improving economic prosperity and social well-being while protecting the environment. The global fertility rate, which fell from 3.2

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The bulk of the concerns revolve around cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Here are some of the issues that Amnesty International says that automakers need to watch out for: DRC: The DRC accounts for roughly 70% of global cobalt production and holds the seventh largest reserves of copper globally.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. The 197 signatory nations agreed to hold the increase in the average global temperature to no more than 2 °C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five. The 2018 EPI offers not only a snapshot of where countries stand today but also reflects important trends in environmental performance at both the national and global levels.

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